Basic Books

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year of pub­li­ca­ti­onISBNauthor(s)title
2017978-1-5416-1657-8David ColeEngines of Liberty: How Citizen Movements Succeed
2018978-1-5416-1678-3David RuncimanHow Democracy Ends
2020978-1-5416-1682-0Eric AltermanLying in State: Why Presidents Lie--And Why Trump Is Worse
2019978-1-5416-1685-1James TraubWhat Was Liberalism?: The Past, Present, and Promise of a Noble Idea
2020978-1-5416-1707-0Serhii PlokhyChernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
2018978-1-5416-1709-4Serhii PlokhyChernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
  ''978-1-5416-1715-5Mark SeidenbergLanguage at the Speed of Sight: How We Read, Why So Many Can't, and What Can Be Done About It
  ''978-1-5416-1716-2Alex Soojung-Kim PangRest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less
  ''978-1-5416-1720-9Benjamin K. BergenWhat the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves
  ''978-1-5416-1723-0Jay SextonA Nation Forged by Crisis: A New American History
2018978-1-5416-1725-4Ian StewartCalculating the Cosmos: How Mathematics Unveils the Universe
  ''978-1-5416-1727-8Eliot A. CohenThe Big Stick: The Limits of Soft Power and the Necessity of Military Force
  ''978-1-5416-1728-5Akhil Reed AmarThe Constitution Today: Timeless Lessons for the Issues of Our Era
2019978-1-5416-1739-1Bhaskar SunkaraThe Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
2018978-1-5416-1755-1Frank TallisThe Incurable Romantic: And Other Tales of Madness and Desire
  ''978-1-5416-1759-9Charles S. CockellThe Equations of Life: How Physics Shapes Evolution
2019978-1-5416-1774-2Richard FloridaThe Rise of the Creative Class
2020978-1-5416-1780-3Leonard SaxGirls on the Edge: Why So Many Girls Are Anxious, Wired, and Obsessed--And What Parents Can Do
2019978-1-5416-1781-0Ellen Karsh · Arlen Sue FoxThe Only Grant-Writing Book You'll Ever Need
2020978-1-5416-1786-5Peniel E. JosephThe Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
  ''978-1-5416-1787-2Nicola TallisUncrowned Queen: The Life of Margaret Beaufort, Mother of the Tudors
2019978-1-5416-1790-2Lewis DartnellOrigins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
2019978-1-5416-1806-0Robert WhitakerMad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
  ''978-1-5416-1808-4Bobby DuffyWhy We're Wrong About Nearly Everything: A Theory of Human Misunderstanding
  ''978-1-5416-1811-4Ganesh SitaramanThe Great Democracy: How to Fix Our Politics, Unrig the Economy, and Unite America
2020978-1-5416-1827-5Christopher CapozzolaBound by War: How the United States and the Philippines Built America's First Pacific Century
2019978-1-5416-1830-5Rob DunnNever Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live
  ''978-1-5416-1841-1Scott E. PageThe Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You
  ''978-1-5416-1844-2Roel SterckxWays of Heaven: An Introduction to Chinese Thought
2020978-1-5416-1850-3Richard MaslandWe Know It When We See It: What the Neurobiology of Vision Tells Us About How We Think
2019978-1-5416-1851-0David SpiegelhalterThe Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
2019978-1-5416-1859-6Brian FaganThe Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850
2020978-1-5416-1861-9Martha S. JonesVanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
2019978-1-5416-1864-0John EisenbergThe League: How Five Rivals Created the NFL and Launched a Sports Empire
2020978-1-5416-1934-0Andrew WhitbyThe Sum of the People: From the Ancient World to the Modern Age, How the Census Has Shaped Nations
2018978-1-5416-4412-0Richard FloridaThe New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-and What We Can Do About It
  ''978-1-5416-4413-7Eugenia ChengBeyond Infinity: An Expedition to the Outer Limits of Mathematics
  ''978-1-5416-4414-4Richard HarrisRigor Mortis: How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hope, and Wastes Billions
  ''978-1-5416-4423-6Lian XiBlood Letters: The Untold Story of Lin Zhao, a Martyr in Mao's China
2020978-1-5416-4424-3Lian XiBlood Letters: The Untold Story of Lin Zhao, a Martyr in Mao's China
2019978-1-5416-4427-4Jonathan A. RoddenWhy Cities Lose: The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide
  ''978-1-5416-4436-6Ted GioiaMusic: A Subversive History
2019978-1-5416-4439-7Michael E. WebberPower Trip: The Story of Energy
2018978-1-5416-4442-7Adrian GoldsworthyHadrian's Wall
2019978-1-5416-4447-2Mo MoultonThe Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women
2020978-1-5416-4450-2Martyn RadyThe Habsburgs: To Rule the World
2018978-1-5416-4453-3Massimo PigliucciHow to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life
2019978-1-5416-4463-2Eric TopolDeep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again
2018978-1-5416-4478-6David Darling · Agnijo BanerjeeWeird Math: A Teenage Genius and His Teacher Reveal the Strange Connections Between Math and Everyday Life
2019978-1-5416-4482-3Scott Rozelle · Natalie JohnsonChina's Invisible Crisis: How a Growing Urban-Rural Divide Could Sink the World's Second-Largest Economy
2018978-1-5416-4488-5Laurence Tribe · Joshua MatzTo End a Presidency: The Power of Impeachment
2019978-1-5416-4489-2Laurence Tribe · Joshua MatzTo End a Presidency: The Power of Impeachment
2018978-1-5416-4494-6Joseph CrespinoAtticus Finch: The Biography
2020978-1-5416-4497-7Jonathan M. MetzlDying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
2019978-1-5416-4498-4Jonathan M. MetzlDying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
2020978-1-5416-4499-1Claire PotterPolitical Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy
978-1-5416-4502-8How We Talk: The Inner Workings of Conversation
2019978-1-5416-4533-2Andreas WagnerLife Finds a Way: What Evolution Teaches Us About Creativity
2018978-1-5416-4537-0Yoram HazonyThe Virtue of Nationalism
2020978-1-5416-4545-5Maurice SamuelsThe Betrayal of the Duchess: The Scandal That Unmade the Bourbon Monarchy and Made France Modern
  ''978-1-5416-4549-3Julie Des JardinsAmerican Queenmaker: How Missy Meloney Brought Women Into Politics
2018978-1-5416-4553-0Derrick BellFaces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism
  ''978-1-5416-4560-8Thomas SowellDiscrimination and Disparities
2019978-1-5416-4563-9Thomas SowellDiscrimination and Disparities
  ''978-1-5416-4572-1Thomas AbtBleeding Out: The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence--and a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets
2018978-1-5416-4576-9Rob DunnNever Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live
2019978-1-5416-4579-0Alan GallayWalter Ralegh: Architect of Empire
2020978-1-5416-4598-1Shahidha BariDressed: A Philosophy of Clothes
  ''978-1-5416-4603-2Edward J. LarsonSummer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
2020978-1-5416-4647-6Alisa RothInsane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
  ''978-1-5416-4648-3Edward J. WattsMortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny
2019978-1-5416-4649-0Eric topolDeep Medicine
2020978-1-5416-4650-6Eugenia Chengx + y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender
  ''978-1-5416-4652-0Elaine Tyler MayFortress America: How We Embraced Fear and Abandoned Democracy
  ''978-1-5416-4676-6Sabine HossenfelderLost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
  ''978-1-5416-4685-8Matthew CobbThe Idea of the Brain: A History
2020978-1-5416-4692-6David ReynoldsIsland Stories: An Unconventional History of Britain
  ''978-1-5416-4710-7Bhaskar SunkaraThe Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
  ''978-1-5416-4714-5Simon Baron-CohenThe Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention
  ''978-1-5416-4720-6Rob DunnNever Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live
  ''978-1-5416-4743-5Ijeoma OluoSo You Want to Talk About Race
2020978-1-5416-4761-9Tim GregoryMeteorite: How Stones from Outer Space Made Our World
2018978-1-5416-7238-3Associated PressThe Associated Press Stylebook 2018: and Briefing on Media Law (Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law)
2020978-1-5416-7246-8Paul BettsRuin and Renewal: Civilizing Europe After World War II
2018978-1-5416-7248-2Eugenia ChengThe Art of Logic in an Illogical World
2020978-1-5416-7249-9   ''The Art of Logic in an Illogical World
2019978-1-5416-7252-9H. W. BrandsDreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West
2020978-1-5416-7254-3H. W. BrandsDreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West
2018978-1-5416-7257-4Henry NichollsSleepyhead: The Neuroscience of a Good Night's Rest
  ''978-1-5416-7258-1Lynne AgressWorking with Words in Business and Legal Writing
2019978-1-5416-7260-4Erika LeeAmerica for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States
  ''978-1-5416-7263-5Catherine WilsonHow to Be an Epicurean: The Ancient Art of Living Well
2020978-1-5416-7266-6Randy Roberts · John SmithWar Fever: Boston, Baseball, and America in the Shadow of the Great War
2019978-1-5416-7270-3Rucker C. Johnson · Alexander NazaryanChildren of the Dream: Why School Integration Works
2020978-1-5416-7272-7Wendy MooreNo Man's Land: The Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain’s Most Extraordinary Military Hospital During World War I
  ''978-1-5416-7289-5Anne Fausto-SterlingSexing the Body (Revised): Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality
2018978-1-5416-7297-0Ann HornadayTalking Pictures: How to Watch Movies
  ''978-1-5416-7298-7Paul HalpernThe Quantum Labyrinth: How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality
2018978-1-5416-7299-4Gregory BernsWhat It's Like to Be a Dog: And Other Adventures in Animal Neuroscience
  ''978-1-5416-7307-6Viktor Mayer-schonberger · Thomas RamgeReinventing Capitalism In The Age Of Big Data (Int)
  ''978-1-5416-7338-0Colin JonesVersailles
  ''978-1-5416-7339-7Rupert ChristiansenCity of Light: The Making of Modern Paris
  ''978-1-5416-7340-3Sarah ChurchwellBehold, America: The Entangled History of "America First" and "the American Dream"
2018978-1-5416-7347-2David R. RoedigerWorking Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs
  ''978-1-5416-7348-9Barry GlassnerThe Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things
2019978-1-5416-7349-6Annette SimmonsThe Story Factor: Inspiration, Influence, and Persuasion through the Art of Storytelling
  ''978-1-5416-7354-0Victor Davis HansonThe Case for Trump
2020978-1-5416-7355-7Victor Davis HansonThe Case for Trump
2019978-1-5416-7358-8Adrian TinniswoodThe Royal Society: And the Invention of Modern Science
  ''978-1-5416-7402-8Hayim H. DoninTo Be a Jew: A Guide to Jewish Observance in Contemporary Life
  ''978-1-5416-7403-5   ''To Pray as a Jew: A Guide to the Prayer Book and the Synagogue Service
2019978-1-5416-7404-2James L. AdamsConceptual Blockbusting: A Guide to Better Ideas, Fifth Edition
  ''978-1-5416-7406-6Leonard Susskind · Art FriedmanSpecial Relativity and Classical Field Theory: The Theoretical Minimum
  ''978-1-5416-7408-0Lucy CookeThe Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife
  ''978-1-5416-7409-7Odd Arne WestadThe Cold War: A World History
2020978-1-5416-7410-3Victor Davis HansonThe Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won
  ''978-1-5416-7431-8Adam KucharskiThe Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread--And Why They Stop
2020978-1-5416-7507-0Judith FlandersA Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order
  ''978-1-5416-7512-4Seymour A. PapertMindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas
  ''978-1-5416-7513-1Thomas SowellCharter Schools and Their Enemies
  ''978-1-5416-7531-5Jonathan SacksMorality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times
  ''978-1-5416-7541-4Minda HartsThe Memo: What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table
2020978-1-5416-7542-1Robin BakerSperm Wars: Infidelity, Sexual Conflict, and Other Bedroom Battles
  ''978-1-5416-7543-8Joan BiskupicThe Chief: The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts
2018978-1-5416-9711-9Marion NestleUnsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat
  ''978-1-5416-9712-6Lauren E. OakesIn Search of the Canary Tree: The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World
978-1-5416-9715-7Monsters and Gods: Britain's Viking Age and How It Shaped the West
2019978-1-5416-9718-8Abigail MarshGood for Nothing: Understanding Altruists, Psychopaths and Everything in Between
2017978-1-5416-9719-5   ''The Fear Factor: How One Emotion Connects Altruists, Psychopaths, and Everyone In-Between
  ''978-1-5416-9721-8John SimpsonThe Word Detective: Searching for the Meaning of It All at the Oxford English Dictionary
  ''978-1-5416-9722-5Sarah GristwoodGame of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe
2017978-1-5416-9723-2Adam KucharskiThe Perfect Bet: How Science and Math Are Taking the Luck Out of Gambling
2019978-1-5416-9724-9A. K. Sandoval-StrauszBarrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City
2018978-1-5416-9728-7Bernard E. HarcourtThe Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens
2020978-1-5416-9730-0Alexander WatsonThe Fortress: The Siege of Przemysl and the Making of Europe's Bloodlands
2018978-1-5416-9733-1Rachel DevlinA Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America's Schools
2019978-1-5416-9734-8Roger CrowleyThe Accursed Tower: The Fall of Acre and the End of the Crusades
2017978-1-5416-9735-5Jonathan KeatesMessiah: The Composition and Afterlife of Handel's Masterpiece
  ''978-1-5416-9736-2James Hamilton-PatersonBeethoven's Eroica: The First Great Romantic Symphony
2020978-1-5416-9738-6Anna SalterPredators: Pedophiles, Rapists, and Other Sex Offenders
  ''978-1-5416-9743-0Peter FritzscheHitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich
2018978-1-5416-9746-1Jay CostThe Price of Greatness: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and the Creation of American Oligarchy
2020978-1-5416-9747-8Jay CostThe Price of Greatness: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and the Creation of American Oligarchy
2018978-1-5416-9752-2Gavin FrancisShapeshifters: A Journey Through the Changing Human Body
  ''978-1-5416-9882-6Peter FritzscheAn Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitler
2020978-1-5416-9888-8David LindenUnique: The New Science of Human Individuality
  ''978-1-5416-9892-5Ben Lindbergh · Travis SawchikThe MVP Machine: How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players
2019978-1-5416-9894-9Ben Lindbergh · Travis SawchikThe MVP Machine: How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players
2020978-1-5416-9896-3Judea Pearl · Dana MackenzieThe Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
2019978-1-5416-9897-0Adam BeckerWhat Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
2019978-1-5416-9899-4Irvin D. YalomBecoming Myself: A Psychiatrist's Memoir
2020978-1-5416-9901-4Jeremy EnglandEvery Life Is On Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things
  ''978-1-5416-9906-9Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz · Roger HighfieldThe Dance of Life: The New Science of How a Single Cell Becomes a Human Being
  ''978-1-5416-9911-3Laura Major · Julie ShahWhat To Expect When You're Expecting Robots: The Future of Human-Robot Collaboration
2019978-1-5416-9913-7Richard BrookhiserGive Me Liberty: A History of America's Exceptional Idea
  ''978-1-5416-9921-2George ChaunceyGay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
  ''978-1-5416-9923-6Adrian GoldsworthyRoman Warfare
2019978-1-5416-9925-0Adrian GoldsworthyCannae: Hannibal's Greatest Victory
2020978-1-5416-9927-4Yuval LevinA Time to Build: From Family and Community to Congress and the Campus, How Recommitting to Our Institutions Can Revive the American Dream
  ''978-1-5416-9933-5Nancy CottFighting Words: The Bold American Journalists Who Brought the World Home Between the Wars
  ''978-1-5416-9934-2Adam GopnikA Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism
2019978-1-5416-9936-6Adam GopnikA Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism
  ''978-1-5416-9937-3George A. BonannoThe Other Side of Sadness: What the New Science of Bereavement Tells Us About Life After Loss
  ''978-1-5416-9938-0Mark PendergrastUncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
2019978-1-5416-9947-2Ian StewartDo Dice Play God?: The Mathematics of Uncertainty
2020978-1-5416-9951-9Azra RazaThe First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last
2019978-1-5416-9952-6Azra RazaThe First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last
  ''978-1-5416-9953-3Thor HansonBuzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
  ''978-1-5416-9958-8Matthew GutmannAre Men Animals?: How Modern Masculinity Sells Men Short
2020978-1-5416-9976-2Brennan SpiegelVRx: How Virtual Therapeutics Will Revolutionize Medicine
  ''978-1-5416-9984-7Elizabeth F. CohenIllegal: How America's Lawless Immigration Regime Threatens Us All
2019978-1-5416-9989-2Associated PressThe Associated Press Stylebook 2019: and Briefing on Media Law